Title :
Short optical pulse generation by self-phase modulation based compression of a fiber-looped 40 GHz LiNbO3 Mach-Zehnder modulator
Author :
Pelusi, M.D. ; Gordon, G.S. ; Eggleton, B.J.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Phys., Sydney Univ., Sydney, NSW
Abstract :
A novel source of 2 ps optical pulses at 40 GHz repetition is demonstrated using a Mach-Zehnder modulator connected in a fiber-loop and compressing its output through self-phase modulation in highly nonlinear fibre and filtering.
Keywords :
optical fibres; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; self-phase modulation; Mach-Zehnder modulator; Short optical pulse generation; frequency 40 GHz; highly nonlinear fibre; self-phase modulation; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical signal processing; Pulse modulation; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference, 2008 and the 2008 Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology. OECC/ACOFT 2008. Joint conference of the
Conference_Location :
Sydney
Print_ISBN :
978-0-85825-807-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-85825-807-5
DOI :
10.1109/OECCACOFT.2008.4610523
